Girl Banned From Prom For Smoking Away From School

www.thekansascitychannel.com ^ | March 31, 2004

[Freedom2specul8]

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Leona Fitzpatrick is going to court -- in order to go to the senior prom.

She's been barred from her prom for smoking -- and not even on school grounds. The Hillsboro, N.D., School Board has rules against students using alcohol, tobacco or drugs.

Students can be kicked out of extracurricular activities for violating the no-smoking rule. Now, Leona is seeking a court order so she can go to the dance. Her parents point out that she's 18 and legally allowed to smoke in North Dakota.

[Gabz]

I did not actively discuss the issue with my nieces when they were in HS, unless they brought up the subject.....which they occassionally did, knowing of my activity in the subject.

By the time my youngest niece was a senior she was abslutely fed up with the crapola they were feeding the students. She's 20 now, doesn't smoke and still doesn't like the smell very much - but does not believe any of the stuff they got shoved down their throats for years in school.

I truly believe they went way overboard with the amount of pretty off the wall stuff they tried to pull off on the kids......a pigs lung intentionally injected with stuff, and then passed off as a human lung after years of smoking......a jar of molasse passed off as the actual tar removed from a dead smoker's lung........

Why in heaven's name should anyone believe anything they say when they are so often caught in such out right lies????

[af_vet_1981]

The girl is old enough to make her own decision about smoking.

Take her out of my public school and let her work for her smokes as a loser in training.

[Docbarleypop]

Then kick her out of school. She is 18, and allowed to go to school for free, my ND tax dollars could go towards a kid that understands that rules should be enforced.

[appalachian_dweller]

Seems to me these school boards, under direction of the communist NEA, are trying to condition the next generation to accept totalitarian rule.

[Bella_Bru]

she broke the cardinal rule of not being brainwashed by the aforementioned thugs.

Speaking of thugs...where are the usual anti-tobacco FR thugs? Asleep at the wheel? They'd wet themselves with glee over this story.

[metesky]

1962.
6'1".
214lbs.
Golden Gloves boxer.

Wild child.

Always politically conservative, but I really didn't come out of the ether until my mid-forties.

[ApplegateRanch]

Exactly..the school has no business interfering outside of their legal jurisdiction. Can you imagine the ramifications if it sets precedence?

You mean like federal laws that prosecute American citizens who engage in activities that are legal in a foreign country, but not legal here, while they are in that country?

Is the next step in this for states to pass laws making it illegal to engage in activities legal in a different state, that are illegal at home? ie A resident of a state with a 60 limit, getting a ticket on returning home legally driving 75 in Nevada? And, since that is 15 "over the (at home) limit", getting a wreckless driving charge?

[appalachian_dweller]

The school board has no authority to regulate what the students do off school property on their own time. None.

[Gabz]

And those that don't go along are punished.

[Gabz]

We don't need the regular contingent - there seem to be enough of them on this thread..............if you know what I mean ;)

[TankerKC]

If they had a rule against Jews attending prom, would you support that?

lowcaliber1701: Sure, so long as the rule was announced in advance!

[appalachian_dweller]

>> And those that don't go along are punished. <<

Exactly right. It's called indoctrination. The real issue here has nothing to do with smoking. It's about teaching to kids to blindly accept the authority of the school system/government. The schools are churning out good little sheeple who will not question authority. That's just what the left wants.

[Bella_Bru]

It's about teaching to kids to blindly accept the authority of the school system/government.

Exactly. Train them early and they'll never question, even in later years at the ballot booths.

[Gabz]

Scary, isn't it????

[fortunecookie]

Yikes, that is scary. And happening all the time. It's so socialist and not many really recognize it.

Meanwhile, back at the prom, how many kids will be drinking or smoking or worse? And get away with it. Wow.

[Madame Dufarge]

p.s. No where in the article did it mention it was a public school. My guess is that it's a private school where rules can be more rigid.

A quick Google search reveals that it's a public school.

[rock58seg]

I would think knowing the limits of power others are permitted to have over you would be the most important.

[Sir_Ed]

"If she can't follow rules, then she should be banned."

The sheeple must be instructed from day one that they MUST submit to authority!

Ed

[Freedom2specul8]

From all accts, she was not participating in a school function at the time she was "caught" smoking in town. See the post at

From tx_eggman

"...The School Board barred Fitzpatrick from the prom and other school activities for 18 weeks after she was twice seen smoking in town and gave a classroom speech in which she admitted smoking...."

[Freedom2specul8]

Hey, looks like she's a country girl for sure..what a cutie. Where'd you find the pic?